The Business Partner sales professional (BPR) is responsible for delivering balanced Information Management (IM) revenue results on a quarterly basis through their partner portfolio. The BPR is the entry point in to IBM for their partners; in this role they are responsible for all facets of the partner relationship.Elements of the territory plan include but are not limited to: identifying and recruiting “best of breed “partners; partner enablement; partner plans; achievement of metrics; pipeline and forecast management; co-selling with partners. BPRs must be knowledgeable and comfortable articulating the IM portfolio and strategy.BPRs take business direction from IM brand sales management and have reporting responsibility to IM brand sales and SWG channel management.

Areas of BPR responsibility include but are not limited to:
1. Make / exceed all measurements on quarterly / annual basis: revenue, co-marketing
2. Create quarterly territory plan defining how measurements will be achieved and growth initiatives by territory
3. Ensure Business Partners maximizes use of IBM programs and incentives

IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.To apply click: https://jobs3.netmedia1.com/cp/faces/job_summary?job_id=SWG-0631199

International IDS Challenge is a wonderful opportunity to discover a week in the life of an IDS manager within P&G. It is an intensive course during which you will meet participants from Europe, Middle East and Africa. You will get insights into how Information Technology is used to produce commercial advantage in a global business environment.

IDS Challenge is structured to include lectures and a series of real case studies. At the end of the course, you’ll leave with a clear perspective on how Information & Decision Solutions (IDS) impacts all aspects of business at P&G and the role you could play in driving P&G’s continued success. We also want you to have fun not only during the day but during the evenings, too. Social events are organized, too!

Dates:April 6th – 10th, 2014

Location:Frankfurt

Qualifications

– Do you want to experience the real-life challenges of Information & Decision Solutions managers at P&G?

– Do you want to develop your management and business skills with trainings and personalized coaching?

– Are you a dynamic student with a background in business or information technology – and a passion for both?

M-Commerce, including mobile payments and person-to-person money transfers, is identified as a high a growth area in the coming years within Ericsson, providing a substantial global market potential – for us and our customers.

Ericsson is now looking to strengthen its team in Sub-Sahara Africa with a number of Solution Architects to drive and further grow its M-Commerce business. This role can be based in Nigeria or Ghana.

This is a position for an experienced Solution Architect, preferably working already in the M-Commerce domain. As a Solution Architect, you will have frequent customer interaction and will be responsible for managing customer requirements and proposing, based on evaluation, competitive solution alternatives.

You are part of the Region’s Engagement Practices and work closely with Customer Unit teams from pre-sales through the implementation and conclusion stages. In the pre-sales stage you will take the lead as customer solution responsible for all sales support activities, including workshops, presentations and responding to RFP’s. Depending on the opportunity, you might continue in the delivery stage as lead delivery solution architect with responsibility for the end-to-end delivery execution.

Part of your role will also be to support business development and portfolio management activities, identifying and specifying main business processes that our solutions support. Moreover, you are experienced in handling constant change of scope and execute your leadership with respect to Ericsson resources as well as third party suppliers and subcontractors.

· Participate in presales activities such as workshops and RFP requests. Take lead as Customer Solution responsible, ‘owning’ the solution offered. Develop solution description including solution proposal, design and 3rd party vendor selection.

· Participate and drive evaluation of 3PP’s suppliers/products and solutions.

· Analyze how security requirements from various aspects should be interpreted and suggest best possible adherence.

· Participate in project execution as Lead Delivery Solution Architect. Manage the customer solution throughout execution phase including active communication with customer and internal stakeholders.

· Drive changes in the methods, processes and guidelines within the customer organization as well as internally. Act as a manager/leader/mentor in day to day situations to provide insights for less experienced colleagues in the region.

· Drive add on sales and business opportunities in order to increase sales, margins and to develop services portfolio.

· Follow up on delivered solutions on an agreed regular basis with customers to keep yourself informed about the life cycle evolvement.

· Recognized as a leader in knowledge sharing communities.

· Expected to travel internationally and locally when required.

· University degree in Engineering, ICT or equivalent

· 10+years of relevant professional experience of which at least 5 years in a similar role.

· Excellent language skills in English. Skills in other main languages like French is a plus.

Ericsson is the world’s leading provider of communications technology and services. Our offering comprises services, software and infrastructure within Information and Communications Technology for telecom operators and other industries. We are enabling the Networked Society with efficient real-time solutions that allow us all to study, work and live our lives more freely, in sustainable societies around the world.

The Graduate University is a fully rounded 24 month programme that takes graduates from entry level to senior systems programmers through education, mentoring, hands on the job training and the ability to pass year end certification therefore progressing into the next year of the programme.

Position Purpose

The position offers rich experience with multiple IT systems and an opportunity to be involved with a complex IT services architecture. The work environment is fast-paced and thrives on continuous improvement. The Application Support resource can use the opportunity to make key contributions to the success of the service operations.

The Application team thrive on the idea of fulfilling stakeholder requirements through the effective use of technology. The team members are empowered to think out-of-the-box, table innovative ideas and play on different grounds within the teams’ vast opportunity space.

Job responsibilities
•Develop a good understanding of the services and the systems involved.
•Participate in activities to understand and learn new product features and technology changes.
•Develop understanding and hands-on administration skills on Webmethod, WebSphere Application Server, MQ and Broker.
• In support with senior team members, perform troubleshooting of issues related to Webmethod and WebSphere deployments.
• Develop a good understanding and use of Monitoring tools. These include Tivoli Monitoring, Apps Manager, WebMethods Administration Consoles and custom-developed monitoring tools.
• Monitor the application health using monitoring tools and custom procedures.
• Monitor alerts thrown by the applications via emails and take documented/as-needed action.
• Work with other team members to meet Service Level Agreements.
• Develop an understanding of the Incident Management process.
• Familiarize with the technical environment, processes, procedures and tools related to Application Services team.
• Perform Applications Quality Assurance activities. Develop working knowledge on quality assurance plan, quality standards and procedures
• Extracting test cases and test data from Functional Specifications and Use Cases documents.
• Coordinating functional, regression, integration and user acceptance testing to validate systems functionalities and integration between modules.
• Documenting testing results
• Management of the interface with the internal and/or external customers on software quality matters.
• Manage the operations of the service desk

Qualifications

You’ll need a Bachelor’s degree (2012 graduation onwards) in a computing or business related discipline, plus a good understanding of IT. This would preferably be backed up with some relevant experience / exposure to financial management systems (of maximum 12 months) or extra-curricular activities.

In addition to the above, we are looking for the following qualifications:

Language Skills: Advanced level of written and spoken English
Interpersonal skills: The ability to work well with people
Flexibility: The ability to adjust to rapid changeTeam Player: Willing to be a collaborative and reliable team member
Analytical Abilities: Eye for detail
Communication: Having the ability to communicate clearly and confidently in an international environment
Commitment: The dedication to achieve goals and being result-oriented
Personality: Possessing an attitude fueled with positive-thinking

An indigenous Engineering Company involved in the engineering design and management of projects in the NigerianOil and Gas industry seeks applications from qualified Nigerians to fill up different positions in her organization in Lagos.

Applicants must be familiar with relevant international design codes and standards, including skills in applicable discipline software for analysis, drafting and modeling of onshore and offshore oil and gas facilities like SACs (with good knowledge of Fatigue Analysis), PDMS, Intools, SKM Power Tools, ETAP, Ceaser II etc.

Applicants must have good years of experience as detailed below in oil and gas facility design.

Candidates within Nigeria must be COREN registered, while applicants from outside Nigeria must belong to professional bodies registerable with COREN.

2.) For non-Engineering positions

Candidates must be graduates of Accountancy, Business Administration, Law and Languages with BSC or BA (Second Class Upper).

Application Closing Date
19th March, 2013Method of Application
Interested applicants should sand their applications to njaforum@yahoo.comNote: Successful candidates will be required to carry out or support engineering design of onshore and offshore oil and gas facilities, in a multi-disciplinary project environment anywhere in Nigeria.

Minimum Qualifications:
Bachelor Science or Higher National Diploma Electrical /Electronics or Bachelor
Engineering with NOT less than 2 years Experience
Possessions of any 2 of these Certifications a MUST:
CCNSP
CCNA
VSAT installations

Electrical Engineers

Minimum Qualifications:
Bachelor Science/Higher National Diploma or Diploma Electrical /Electronics with NOT less than 2 years Experience
Hands on knowledge and experience in electrical/electronics/wiring an added advantage.

Minimum Qualifications:
University degree or its equivalent. B.Sc/HND Computer Science/Engineering or related discipline.
Possession of CCNA is a must. Possession CCNP and CCIE etc. will be an added advantage.
Minimum of two (2) years post NYSC qualification experience in network support.